Barbara Lowell

Barbara's first picture book about George Ferris and his famous Ferris Wheel was published in 2014 by Grosset & Dunlap and was a finalist in the Oklahoma Book Award. Her historical picture book about the Peale family, SYBILLA UNDER THE BONES, won the Katherine Patterson Prize at Hunger Mountain (Journal of the Vermont College of Fine Arts) in 2012. Barbara was also a runner-up for SCBWI's Barbara Karlin Grant for unpublished picture book writers. She lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.